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Catalyst, the provider of technology agnostic and independent IT advisory services has closed the seed financing round led by Persistent. The Shell foundation and members of the advisory board also contributed to the round. The funds will accelerate the company’s growth.

Die Swiss Fintech Fair, initiiert von Swiss Finance Startups, findet dieses Jahr zum zweiten Mal statt. Diesen September wird die Veranstaltung stärker auf die Unternehmens- und Startup-Ausstellung setzen. Tickets und Ausstellungsflächen sind ab sofort buchbar.

Three Swiss startups are among the six finalists selected for the Geneva Wealthtech Awards. The startups will pitch to an audience of more than 300 people from the wealth management sector. The pitch contest takes place at Geneva Wealthtech Forum on 14 March.

On 16 April Startup INVEST’s Venture DAY will take place in Zurich. Again some elements of the event will be in a new format. Apart from start-ups also investors, corporates and supporters will pitch to the audience.

Von den Misserfolgen spricht man ungern; dabei könnte man viel daraus lernen. Das zeigt der neue Podcast «abverheit». Zum Start sind drei Episoden über das Startup massgekocht, den Serienunternehmer Alan Frei und einen Güggeli-Züchter live.

Swiss start-ups that tried to sell shares to the crowd experienced difficulties in the past years. Now start-ups dare to give crowdinvesting another try and are successful.

Numerous Swiss founders were selected for Forbes’ “30 under 30” Europe. The good performance is mainly driven by young scientists with promising start-up projects.

Das Zürcher Startup mitipi lanciert in Zusammenarbeit mit smile.direct versicherungen ein Sicherheitsabonnement. Die Versicherungslösung verbindet eine Hausratsversicherung inklusive Hausrat-Kasko mit dem virtuellen Mitbewohner «Kevin», der Einbrecher abschrecken soll.

See Your Box (SYB), offering an all-inclusive solution for monitoring goods transported globally, is among the ten startups selected to join the Hartford Insurtech Hub, in the United States. The program offers a cash grant of $25k and 4 months of free office space. SYB seeks to seize the opportunity to launch new insurance products in the US market.

Two Swiss startups have won awards at the SLAS 2019 exhibition, one of the largest exhibitions for the life sciences and technology industry. SEED Biosciences received the Ignite Award as the best emerging startup, while Andrew Alliance won the Best Product Award.